How to Create Charts with Filtered Data in Excel

We will learn to create graphs which can be handled by data filters to look more easy and customizable.

Data preparation

Let us create a chart data for 2 products with different categories.

We have the cost and profit values in this chart. Convert this data to tables to make it more accessible.

The table lools like follows:

The chart

Create a chart from the same now:

The chart will look like this:

Now we can easily filter the category as shown below:

After filtering the graph will look like this:

We can also try to remove a product from the list of products.

Please note that this is a small table but for more number of products and more categories it will be very handy to filter the table and how it reflects on the charts instantly:

Product disappeared from the chart:

We can insert slicer like this also:

This is how slicers look like:

It will very easy to click on the slicer values instead of the filtering:

Please find attached Excel file for reference.